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No. 481,865. Patented Aug. 30, 1892.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,865, dated August30, 1892.

Application filed October '7, 1891- Serial No.408,056. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. HARRIS, of SaXtons River, in the countyof Vindham and State of Vermont, have invented a new and Improved Tool,of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in tools; and the object of myinvention is to produce a tool which is adapted to be used incombination with a hammer or hatchet, which is especially useful inshingling, clapboarding or performing similar work, and which enablesthe workman to do his work easily and rapidly, as hereinafter described.

To this end my invention consists in atool the construction of whichwill be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tool as applied to a hammer. Fig. 2is an enlarged detail side elevation, partly in section, of thetool;-and Fig. 3 is a plain view of the same.

The tool is adapted to be used in connection with a hatchet or hammer,and as shown in the drawings it is applied to the latter,the hammer 10having the usual handle 11, which extends through the head.

The tool proper is held in a socket 12, which socket is driven into theend of the handle, and the socket is provided on opposite outer sideswith a barbed flange 13, which prevents its easy removal after it isonce driven into the handle.

The socket is adapted to remain permanently in the handle and it servesincidentally to hold the hammer-head in place. The socket isscrew-threaded internally and is adapted to receive the threaded shank1d of the tool 15, which tool has a thickened body portion 16, from oneside of which extends a pointed prong 17 and from the other side ofwhich extends a knife 18.

When the tool is applied to a hammer or hatchet, the socket 12 is driveninto the hammer or hatchet handle, as described, a nut 19 is screwedupon the shank 14 of the tool, and the shank is then screwed into thesocket until the nut 19 bears against the outer end of the socket.

The tool is preferably arranged at right angles to the hammer orhatchet, but may be placed at any convenient angle thereto, and byturning the shank in its socket the tool may be adjusted so that theknife or prong Will project from either side of the hammer or hatchet,as desired, thus providing means for adapting the tool for the use ofeither a right-handed or left-handed person.

The tool is adapted for a great variety of uses, some of the moreprominent of which are as follows: By means of the prong 17 a shingle orclapboard may be easily'picked up, which is done by sticking the pronginto the article to be raised, and it will be seen that the workmanbytaking hold of the hammer or hatchet handle will be able to reach muchfarther than he otherwise could. The prong also affords an easy means ofsecuring the tool and hammer or hatchetin place, which is done bystriking the prong into any support. It is also adapted for use as ascratch-awl and as a support for a chalk-line.

The knife may be used for splitting a shingle or cutting a shingle orclapboard, and when the tool is not to be used it may be removed fromthe hammer or hatchet by simply unscrewing it, and the socket whichremains in the handle will serve as a fastening.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. An attachment for hammers and hatchets, comprisinga body portion having a threaded shank, a pointed prong, and a knife,all integral with the body,the prong and knife being on oppositesides-of the said body, and an internally-screw-threaded socket adaptedto be secured in the end of the handle, projecting through the head ofthe hammer or hatchet, substantially as described.

2. An attachmentfor hammers and hatchets, consisting of a body portionhaving a threaded shank, a pointed prong, and a knife, all integral withthe body,the prong andknife being on opposite sides of the said body,and an internally-threaded socket having barbed flanges thereon,substantially as herein shown and described.

3. A hammer or hatchet provided with an internally-screw-threaded socketsecured in the end of the handle, which projects into the eye of thehammer or hatchet, whereby thread therein, and a tool having a threaded10 the socket is made to serve as a means for shank to fit the socketand having on one side attaching a tool thereto and for securing the apointed prong" and on another side a knife, handle therein,substantially as described. substantially as described.

5 4. The combination, with a hammer or hatchet, of a socket adapted toenter the handle of the hammer or hatchet Within the \Vitnesses: hammeror hatchet head, said socket having WILLIAM B. DOW, barbed flangesthereon and an internal screw- HENRY W. KNIGHT.

CHARLES E. HARRIS.

